Wednesday, January 7, 2015

Attacks Against NAACP

Attacks Against NAACP ---
tags: black victim, civil rights organization, lack of media,


*Reference
NAACPhttp://www.naacp.org/pages/naacp-historyhttp://www.naacp.org/pages/naacp-history

*Timeline

January 7, 2015 Internet questions lack of media coverage of NAACP office ... The Daily Dot
26 mins ago - The attack struck a chord for many reasons. First, the NAACP, along with many other civil rights organizations, has long been on the receiving ...

1962: NAACP Mississippi Field Secretary Medgar Evers and his wife Myrlie also became high-profile targets for pro-segregationist violence and terrorism. In 1962, their home was firebombed and later Medgar was assassinated by a sniper in front of their residence following years of investigations into hostility against blacks and participation in non-violent demonstrations such as sit-ins to protest the persistence of Jim Crow segregation throughout the south. NAACP  De La Beckwith was not convicted of murder until February 5, 1994 wikipedia: n the early morning of June 12, 1963, just hours after President John F. Kennedy's speech on national television in support of civil rights, Evers pulled into his driveway after returning from a meeting with NAACP lawyers. Emerging from his car and carrying NAACP T-shirts that read "Jim Crow Must Go", Evers was struck in the back with a bullet fired from an Enfield 1917 rifle; the bullet ripped through his heart... He was taken to the local hospital in Jackson where he was initially refused entry because of his color, until it was explained who he was; he died in the hospital 50 minutes later. On June 21, 1963, Byron De La Beckwith, a fertilizer salesman and member of the White Citizens' Council (and later of the Ku Klux Klan), was arrested for Evers' murder. Juries composed solely of white men twice that year deadlocked on De La Beckwith's guilt. In 1994, 30 years after the two previous trials had failed to reach a verdict, De La Beckwith was brought to trial based on new evidence. Bobby DeLaughter was the prosecutor. During the trial, the body of Evers was exhumed from his grave for an autopsy. De La Beckwith was convicted of murder on February 5, 1994, after having lived as a free man for much of the three decades following the killing (he was imprisoned from 1977 to 1980 for conspiring to murder A. I. Botnick). De La Beckwith appealed unsuccessfully, and died at age 80 in prison in January 2001.

academia.edu Beckwith came to believe that therewere inherent and insurmountable differences between the races that kept them apart.These attitudes are apparent in the letters that Beckwith wrote while awaiting trial for Evers’murder. He accuses the NAACP and nebulous“left wing forces” of having engineered his arrest in order to distract from their own and to destroy a “strong right wing patriot”who threatens their efforts to integrate society. Beckwith is convinced that most white Southerners share his belief that the civil rights movement needs to be ended and segregation restored in order to salvage the South’s perceived earlier greatness.  By the time he began corresponding with his nephew in 1986, Beckwith had become aradical, calculating, and extremely dangerous white supremacist. He had been ordained a minister in [right wing anti-government anti-Semitic neo-Nazi terrorist aligned with Islamists] Christian Identity, which holds that Caucasians are the “Lost Tribes” of Israel, that blacks, Jews, and other “mud people” are the literal offspring of Satan and do not possess souls,and that God has charged the white race to rule over these supposed inferiors. His letters speak frequently of the “Zionist Occupied Government”and “World Jewry,” which he believes are using America’s compliant and ignorant black population to carry out their schemes. Beckwith frequently encloses propaganda materials(published by such organizations as the Ku KluxKlan and Aryan Nations) with his correspondence exalting him as a “Great American Patriot” and supporting his views on race and religion

December 25, 1951 The unsolved 1951 murder of Harry T. Moore, an NAACP field secretary in Florida whose home was bombed on Christmas night, and his wife was just one of many crimes of retribution against the NAACP and its staff and members. NAACP

1908: The NAACP was formed partly in response to the continuing horrific practice of lynching and the 1908 race riot in Springfield, the capital of Illinois and resting place of President Abraham Lincoln. NAACP


*Sources


  • Harry T. Moore - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_T._Moore

    Wikipedia
    The Moores were the first NAACP members to be murdered for civil rights .... For example, bombing was prevalent in Birmingham, Alabama in the 1950s, used  ...



  • Medgar Evers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medgar_Evers

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    He submitted his application in concert with the NAACP as a test case. ... Emerging from his car and carrying NAACP T-shirts that read "Jim Crow Must Go", Evers .....Birmingham riot of 1963 · 16th Street Baptist Church · 1963 Church bombing.



  • Edgar Nixon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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    Martin Luther King, Jr., and on February 1, 1956, a bomb exploded in front of Nixon's home. ... 1985, Nixon received the Walter White Award from the NAACP.



  • Vernon Dahmer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernon_Dahmer

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    ... civil rights leader and president of the Forrest County chapter of the NAACP in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. ... The Hattiesburg area was stunned by the attack.



  • Robert Smith Vance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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    Moody was also charged with mailing bombs that were defused at the Eleventh Circuit's headquarters and at the Jacksonville office of the NAACP. Moody had  ...



  • National Association for the Advancement of ... - Wikipedia

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    The NAACP bestows the annual Image Awards for achievement in the arts and .....Locals viewing the bomb-damaged home of Arthur Shores, NAACP attorney,  ...



  • Ralph Abernathy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Abernathy

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    As an officer of the Montgomery, Alabama NAACP, he organized the first mass ... and the home of Reverend Robert Graetz were also bombed on that evening  ...



  • Internet questions lack of media coverage of NAACP office ...

    www.dailydot.com/politics/naacp-bombing-media-silence/

    The Daily Dot
    26 mins ago - The attack struck a chord for many reasons. First, the NAACP, along with many other civil rights organizations, has long been on the receiving ...



  • NAACP: 100 Years of History | NAACP

    www.naacp.org/...

    National Association for the Advancement of Colored...
    The unsolved 1951 murder of Harry T. Moore, an NAACP field secretary in Florida whose home was bombed on Christmas night, and his wife was just one of  ...





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